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Entries from June 2009

NewerTech USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter

June 24th, 2009 · No Comments

If you find yourself needing to read and write hard disks from other computers and do not always want to transplant them into a computer or an empty USB drive chassis, the NewerTech USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter is a great solution. It handles just about any format:

3.5″ SATA (1.5 or 3.0 GBps, Molex [...]

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Tags: Computers

“…, has added you as a friend on SiliconIndia” scam emails

June 20th, 2009 · 6 Comments

Over the past year I’ve been getting a steady trickle of “friend requests”, i.e. invitations to join a service, for a website called SiliconIndia. Virtually all the supposed senders were women from India. Job titles included Software Engineer, Business Analyst and HR Executive. Most were very pretty. By that I mean not just better than [...]

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Tags: scams · spam

“Trau keiner Statistik…”

June 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Today, in online chat with an American friend that touched on website statistics I posted the line:
“Never trust any statistics that you didn’t forge yourself.”
He replied that he liked the quote, which suggested to me that he hadn’t heard it before. This particular one liner frequently pops up in discussions of published numbers in Germany, [...]

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Tags: history · politics